Wrenches at Your Insides
When I try to conjure images of what writing a memoir is like, I tend to come back to vivisection, the process of performing operations on live animals for research.
What to Read When You Want to Think about Survival
Books saved me again and again and again. They will continue to do so. But books about how we survive helped me patch some of those raw, jagged places that I hadn’t managed to fix on my own.
Hitting the Wall
Unfortunately, this wall was one that I’m familiar with and desperately try to avoid. The particular wall was depression, a disorder that I can never quite escape.
A Kind of Fairy Tale
She knew that she was bringing her life to bear on the stories. That she was placing her own burdens heavily on these fairy tales. That if the stories could bear the weight of her life, then maybe she could, too.
Doing the Best We Can
No one is at their best right now. Not faculty, not staff, not students, not parents, not anyone.
Anger Within
Published in Women in Higher Education on Sept. 30, 2020: I feel like my insides are on fire too. But the fire that burns inside of me is anger and overwhelming fury.
Taking Care
Published in The National Teaching and Learning Forum on Sept. 1, 2020: Treating each other with care, respect and understanding was more important than sticking to a previous schedule or assignments that no longer worked in remote classrooms.
Those Who Wander Are Sometimes Lost
Published in Women in Higher Education on Sept. 1, 2020: I can’t wander now. And I feel even more lost. I’ve lost the ability to be aimless. I’ve lost the capability to not entirely notice what’s around.
The Pandemic’s Motherhood Penalty
Published in Women in Higher Education on July 29, 2020: Being a working mother comes with disadvantages because of bias and the structure of the workplace. Being a working mother during a pandemic is a disadvantage.
Happy: A Poem about Depression in a World on Fire
Published at Disability Acts on July 24, 2o2o: As if depression, your depression, isn’t a legitimate reaction to our broken, engulfed world.